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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Three Writers Nominated for Write Well Award

Three featured writers have been nominated by Shanti Arts for the 2014 Write Well Award,
which seeks to recognize excellence in published short fiction in both
print and electronic magazines. Winners will be announced in August
2015.

Diana Crane
grew up in Canada, taught sociology in the United States, and has
published several books of nonfiction on topics related to fashion, the
media, and the arts. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship and twice the recipient of a Fulbright award. She now lives
in Paris where she writes fiction as well as articles about fashion and
the arts. She also co-edits a fashion studies journal.Crane's website | Amazon page

Frederic Smith is a
southern Californian who went to Princeton and Cambridge. Twenty years
ago he tired of practicing law and turned full-time to writing. He is
the author of numerous stories and a novel, See How We Run, which received the lead reviews in the New Statesman and the Irish Times.

Susan Scott, for "Still Life," which appeared in the Spring 2014 issue of Stone Voices. Susan
Scott collaborates with artists, scholars and activists on a wide range
of creative projects and serves as a lead editor with New Quarterly
magazine, home to the Wild Writers Festival in Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada. Scott teaches memoir, short fiction, and the well-wrought essay;
2014 workshops include the annual French River Creative Writing
Retreat and Stone by Stone: Writing Spiritual Memoir, with Prajna of
Amida Mosaic Sangha. A memoir in-progress, Sainted Dirt: Stories from the Fringe, explores the gifts of spiritual displacement. A chapbook, Temple in a Teapot, was launched on the Mormon Women Writers Literary Tour.